mahgister
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| Happiness is... Acoustically, happiness begin with the voice of our mother when we awaked in her, or from her... Acoustically speaking, the heart beat music of the mother and our own heart beat correlate with her is the first happy melody... Acoustically if... | |
| And a Happy 4th to all! I am Canadian and worst than that, but as a fellow neighbour i wish to all Americans the best ... Forget bi-partisan politics, concentrate on acoustics... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass Could you name the artist in this album ? Effectively the viol is also an instrument useful to test bass rendition... Re piano. I rediscovered an album from long ago that I found in the cut-out bin of a long-forgotten record store. The title i... | |
| Why not the piano as a reference for bass Testing bass is not testing a deep frequency but a lot of band range interacting... If an audio system/room do not reproduce well a piano you had lost your money.... To test bass i use preferably piano, tuba, and organ .. | |
| Sharing some audio recordings from my listening session this past weekend Sound good on my well optimized low cost system... In fact it sound better than some very much costlier system as evaluated from my low cost one . I dont see the room acoustics but it sound good... Congratulation! | |
| what system musicians prefer? Do they care? My friend who was a trombonist in a classical orchestra was cynical about many musicians takes on musical matter and despise audiophiles as maniac... i think there is in the musicians crowd the same amount of interest and disinterest for audioph... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Horowitz is able to play everything more than well.... But Scriabin music ask for a magician dedicated to him in a total devotion ( like Wagner and Beethoven ask for total devotion)... He is not my favorite in Scriabin, for example Igor Zhukov is... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life it is more fun to learn how to do (acoustics among other things) than just plug and play... There is not slow car or fast car in audio, any system at any price need acoustical,mechanical and electrical optimization... The price has nothing to do ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks frogman for your appreciation which means much to me... This is my favorite version of the same piece of Richter by the greatest Scriabin disciple (who wed his daughter) Sofronitsky. I was not a fan of Scriabin till i heard him. After Scri... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life Wise post. There is as much fun to optimize a low cost system as a high cost one... We go with our budget... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks tyray i am happy to be useful ... @mahgister The reason for me is evident so genius was Stravinsky and he is one of the greatest Russian composer, Scriabin is more revolutionary, transforming piano playing into a "primal" musical tim... | |
| Jazz for aficionados i just wrote this to convey my Scriabin impression: I created the past that never was In the present which encompass Nothing old or new But the future as memory anew The instant of perception Reflect nothing But is the seed of an aeon... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life This hobby attracts a lot of people with OCD tendencies — chasing perfection where it doesn’t exist. But sound is simple. It’s just waves. If you like what you hear, you win. There is no “better.” That concept doesn’t exist. There’s just sound a... | |
| Jazz for aficionados i think that jazz is more primal than classical...But some classical music are more primal than some jazz... I was speaking in my post above about the way musical time is understood in Jazz and classical... Scriabin is primal as jazz is for ex... | |
| A principle guiding the wise audiophile life i concur... +1 Nice summary. I think you’ve pretty well nailed it in one elegant paragraph. |